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Successful health care reform is pivotal to keeping deficit reduction on track. This will require bipartisan efforts either to accept Clinton's plan in a modified version or to adopt an altered Republican version. Without health care reform, no meaningful deficit reduction will ultimately be accomplished...
...cultures by creating mixtures that assimilate the customs of both. This argument is hypocritical. The end purpose of multiculturalism is to promote understanding; its doctrine is to be accepting of all while protecting individual cultural identities. Why not accept whatever mixture of cultures a couple or family decided to adopt...
...Russians much of the pain of reform without many of the benefits had finally gone on too long for Yeltsin. He had tried during the past 18 months of struggle with conservative lawmakers to abide by Russia's Soviet-era constitution while he pushed the go-slow parliament to adopt free-market changes. At times he came perilously close to overstepping the law. But he always beat a retreat, fearing that any challenge to the lawful order might destroy the state...
Malpractice reform would help, but the Administration's new proposals are essentially lame since Clinton has refused to adopt a California-style cap on awards for pain and suffering. On the other hand, Clinton's plan to extend at- home and nursing-home benefits will lower costs. As the First Lady points out, Medicare does not pick up those tabs now, "so that doctors, as favors to families, keep people in hospitals...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences Committee on Informational Technology has established an Adopt-a-Dorm program to make data network help accessible for all first years...